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Conservation Front
Monthly Column From Florida Sportsman Magazine

By Karl Wickstrom, Founder/Editor-In-Chief

 

Imperiled Fish: We Don’t Buy It!
In the Conservation Front article in the October issue of Florida Sportsman, we voice our views on buying certain species of fish. Like so many things, this one comes down to dollars and sense. In most parts of Florida, catching wild fish and game is a privilege. We enjoy their meats when we’re fortunate enough to get them, but they’re not a necessity for ... [+] Read More
 
Central and Southern Florida Project--Comprehensive Review Study--Reconnaissance Report
Go to this page for a link to the PDF File--252 pages, 21mb ... [+] Read More
 
Plan Six, The Only Fix
(August 2006) Put that to music, folks, and go for it. Nothing else—nothing—will really curtail the astounding discharge agonies facing the two big estuaries east and west of Lake Okeechobee. ... [+] Read More
 

  
Grassbed Blues
(July 2006) The only apparent life forms on a once-rich grassflat were now four biologists and five intrepid volunteer water testers with the Florida Oceanographic Coastal Center. ... [+] Read More
 
Death of an Estuary
(April 2006) Make that two estuaries. They are immense cradles of life ... [+] Read More
 
Swordfish & Longlines - Two Classic Articles
 
Stewardship at Home
Ten things you can do right now to help preserve fish and wildlife habitat in Florida. ... [+] Read More
 
Clipping the Longlines?
It has invited overcapitalization to the point where market fishermen have financed bigger boats and a type of gear that’s now the global pariah of fisheries: the longline. ... [+] Read More
 
Big Trouble on the Big O
Florida’s most-famous bass lake heads for disaster. ... [+] Read More
 
Plankton Power: Foundation of Marine Life
They spend their lives drifting aimlessly, bound for wherever fate takes them. ... [+] Read More
 
Disastrous Red Tide Attacks West Coast
Tampa Bay, Sarasota Bay and other stretches of peninsular west Florida experienced massive fish kills this summer during blooms of Karenia brevis. ... [+] Read More
 
NMFS Slams Door on Recreational Grouper Fishers
Questionable data trigger bag limit cuts and two-month Gulf of Mexico season closure. ... [+] Read More
 
THE SWEET HEREAFTER
Our craving for sugar starves the Everglades and fattens politicians. An October 2003 article that is more relevant than ever. ... [+] Read More
 

  
Angry Protests Attack Red Grouper Proposal
False alarm. That’s how many Floridians describe a federal proposal to suddenly slash red grouper bag limits and impose a closed season on all groupers. ... [+] Read More
 
Feds’ Proposal Would Cripple Red Grouper Fishing
ALERT! Anglers Urged to Protest on All Levels. ... [+] Read More
 

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